Approaches to Intelligence
How are Piagetian approaches to intelligence similar and/or different than psychometric approaches to intelligence?
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1. How are Piagetian approaches to intelligence similar and/or different than psychometric approaches to intelligence?
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Similarities
1. Both accept genetic determinants of intelligence.
2. Both accept maturational determination of intelligence.
3. Both use non-experiemental methodology
4. Both attempt to measure intellectual functions that the child is expected to have developed by a certain age.
5. Both conceive of intelligence as being essentially rational.
6. Both assume that maturation of intellectual process is ...
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This solution details the similarities and differences between the Piagetian and Psychometric approaches to intelligence. Two sources are provided.